Arts & Life

Corey Hardeman is used to messy spaces and smiling faces. Her painting studio often takes on the clutter of the job as the Cariboo painter plows through her ongoing projects.

Local singer-songwriter John Rogers brings his folk stylings to a pair of stages in the days ahead. Tonight he is the headliner at Cafe Voltaire for the free 8 p.m. Friday Night Mic session held each week inside Books And Company. On Feb.

The peels of the bagpipes will soon be echoing off the snow covered hills of Prince George. On Saturday a new book opens on local Scottish pride and calls all clans, Scot or not, to come enjoy the Celtic culture's ancient form of dance.

He doesn't want to be a country music star, because it would get in the way of breaking horses and calving cows. It just doesn't get any more country than that.

The Serenity is coming in for a landing at Northern FanCon. It will light up the tails of Joss Whedon fans that there is indeed a space emissary touching down in Prince George right out of the space western he invented.

Sound Addiction is one of the city's best loved power-pop groups. Tonight they rock it up but power down at Cafe Voltaire (inside Books and Company).

Most people won't get to see the Canada Winter Games medals until opening day but the organizers did whet the public's appetite this week by announcing the artist who designed them.

His name has gotten shorter as his career has expanded. He started out in life named Gerard Donoghue. When he became a phys-ed teacher at his own former high school in Scarborough, he was called Mr. Donoghue.

The hottest ticket in town tonight is getting in to see Black Spruce Bog. It's rarely the case anywhere in Canada that a rootsy folk bluegrass band sets the local market on fire, but Black Spruce Bog has been burning.

Different strokes have always ruled Lynn McCrady's life. Now at 104 years old, she is still living a colourful life at Jubilee Lodge.